The Tony Roach file
May 17, 2020 at 12:05AM
• Roach, 41, lives in Moose Lake, Minn., with his wife, Sonja, and their son and daughter.
• The owner of Roach's Guide Service, he is known for his angling expertise on Mille Lacs. But he and the half-dozen or so guides he works with also fish Gull and other Brainerd-area lakes, as well as Leech and Winnibigoshish lakes and surrounding waters.
• Roach started fishing with his dad, Mark, as a boy. The two fished their first tournament together on Mille Lacs when Tony was 13.
• Roach, who at one time intended to become a high school teacher, shifted directions and after graduating college took a job in construction management.
• All the while he continued to fish and compete in tournaments while guiding part-time. In 2006 he started guiding full-time.
• An avid bird hunter, Roach chases grouse and pheasants in the fall with his Labrador retriever.
None of the boat’s occupants, two adults and two juveniles, were wearing life jackets, officials said.
